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STOC
2012
ACM
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12 years 1 months ago
Time-space tradeoffs in resolution: superpolynomial lower bounds for superlinear space
We give the first time-space tradeoff lower bounds for Resolution proofs that apply to superlinear space. In particular, we show that there are formulas of size N that have Reso...
Paul Beame, Christopher Beck, Russell Impagliazzo
CADE
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Compression of Propositional Resolution Proofs via Partial Regularization
This paper describes two algorithms for the compression of propositional resolution proofs. The first algorithm, RecyclePivotsWithIntersection, performs partial regularization, re...
Pascal Fontaine, Stephan Merz, Bruno Woltzenlogel ...
CC
2010
Springer
112views System Software» more  CC 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Random Cnf's are Hard for the Polynomial Calculus
We show a general reduction that derives lower bounds on degrees of polynomial calculus proofs of tautologies over any field of characteristic other than 2 from lower bounds for r...
Eli Ben-Sasson, Russell Impagliazzo
FOCS
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Exponential Separations between Restricted Resolution and Cutting Planes Proof Systems
We prove an exponential lower bound for tree-like Cutting Planes refutations of a set of clauses which has polynomial size resolution refutations. This implies an exponential sepa...
Maria Luisa Bonet, Juan Luis Esteban, Nicola Gales...
STOC
1999
ACM
101views Algorithms» more  STOC 1999»
14 years 3 months ago
Short Proofs are Narrow - Resolution Made Simple
The width of a Resolution proof is defined to be the maximal number of literals in any clause of the proof. In this paper, we relate proof width to proof length (ϭsize), in both g...
Eli Ben-Sasson, Avi Wigderson
FOCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Study of Proof Search Algorithms for Resolution and Polynomial Calculus
This paper is concerned with the complexity of proofs and of searching for proofs in two propositional proof systems: Resolution and Polynomial Calculus (PC). For the former syste...
Maria Luisa Bonet, Nicola Galesi
SAT
2009
Springer
119views Hardware» more  SAT 2009»
14 years 6 months ago
Boundary Points and Resolution
We use the notion of boundary points to study resolution proofs. Given a CNF formula F, a lit(x)-boundary point is a complete assignment falsifying only clauses of F having the sam...
Eugene Goldberg